Hot off of Atom becoming an official standard Tim Bray has posted two great pieces over at Ongoing, both worth your time. Don’t Invent XML Languages a Why Not To on creating new standards, and a followup, in cases where you really have to, On XML Language Design which hints on a few technical and non-technical gotchas with the process.
To the Managers Out There · The next time one of your technical superstars comes into the room and says “We gotta design an XML vocabulary for X”, make them prove they can’t do it with one of the Big Five. And if they can prove it, sigh deeply and budget a couple of years’ delay, and a few thousand more engineering hours.
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